Category: Kia

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety announces 13 vehicles that earn TOP SAFETY PICK awards for 2007. Winners include 4 cars, 7 SUVs, and 2 minivans. This award recognizes vehicles that do the best job of protecting people in front, side, and rear crashes based on ratings in Institute tests. Winners also have to be equipped with electronic stability control (ESC).

Inaugural Motorist's Choice Awards honor vehicles that best satisfy their buyers and have the lowest relative cost of ownership in their class. AutoPacific and IntelliChoice have teamed up to develop this new benchmark of automotive customer satisfaction.

Inaugural Motorist's Choice Awards honor vehicles that best satisfy their buyers and have the lowest relative cost of ownership in their class. AutoPacific and IntelliChoice have teamed up to develop this new benchmark of automotive customer satisfaction.

Honda announces addition of a new North American assembly plant while Kia defers a new plant due to a Korean management scandal. Pressure on American manufacturers increases.

Kia's Sorento should perform well in ever-more-competitive mid-size SUV segment.

Multi-S explores possible new U.S. Kia entry.